Correspondence

From: Leningrad, Russia

On behalf of the editorial board of the unified organ of Russian
Marxist-Leninists, Proletarskaya Gazeta, this first issue is sent to
you enclosed with this letter. The Russian Marxist-Leninists have unified their
efforts to draw firm steps towards the formation of a united Marxist-Leninist
Party in Russia. The Russian communists are resolute in the struggle against
revisionism for socialism, the establishment of the dictatorship of the
proletariat in our country, following the guidelines drawn by Marx, Engels,
Lenin and Stalin. The Russian communists stand for the revolutionary traditions
of the party of Lenin and Stalin and express our resolve to condemn and fight
against any form of revisionism, which unfortunately took over the Soviet Party
and state after the death of comrade Stalin. Modern opportunism and revisionism
uprooted socialism and restored capitalism already under the disguise of the red
banner and false revolutionary phraseology, making use of the tremendous respect
and recognition earned among the popular masses by the party of Lenin and Stalin
over the years of socialist construction. In this light the courageous and
principled struggle of the Albanian communists led by comrade Enver Hoxha
against modern revisionism is of great significance. The works of Enver Hoxha,
long forbidden in our country, represent a priceless contribution to the
struggle against opportunism and revisionism for all communists in the world.

The Russian Marxist-Leninists regard the political work within the working
class for the construction of the party of the working class as central to the
life of communists. The class struggle in Russia is rapidly approaching decisive
battles. The general crisis of capitalism, imperialism, has reached all parts of
the world. The August 1998 crisis in Russia has further unveiled the profound
contradiction existing in the Russian economy and society. Capitalist
exploitation has reached unthinkable levels: tens of millions of workers left
unpaid for months, in many cases for well over a year. The spontaneous struggle
of the working class and working people in general is increasing by the day,
involving millions of unpaid and downtrodden employees. As of today tens of
large factories have been seized by the workers, the economic demands of the
working masses are turning more and more political. Workers of individual
factories are grasping the necessity to organise as a class, to unite their
efforts with workers of other factories, with workers of other professions to
face the evil government of the bourgeoisie, the superstructure of capitalist
exploitation that they are being subjected to so ruthlessly. Today, more that
ever before, there is the need for the unification of the workers' movement with
revolutionary theory. And that is the task of the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist
party. The duty of the revolutionaries is to establish class organisations, use
all existing forms of class organisation, create new ones. Workers' unions,
workers' soviets. Within the working class, revolutionaries must fight against
reformist and anarcho-syndicalist illusions, expose the profoundness of the
contradictions of our society and open the way for a new society.
Revolutionaries clarify the meaning of socialism, its inevitability, also its
superiority to capitalism in all spheres of social life, appeal to the glorious
times of the socialist Soviet Union, the Soviet Union of our parents and
grandparents.

The growing resistance of the working class is facing fascist repression that
has recently taken the life of a worker leader, a founding member of the
workers' union Zhashita (Defence). Striking workers all over the
country are facing a belligerent response from the authorities. In a large
number of regions, the central government is represented by elected members of
the leadership of the so-called Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF)
led by a concealed social-fascist and Pan-Slavist, Gennady Zyuganov. The CPRF,
the formal heir of the revisionist CPSU, has entered the central government
taking up posts, has joined the reactionary government in order to perpetuate
savage capitalist exploitation and to prevent a social revolution. Far from
succeeding in preventing a social revolution, the CPRF is becoming the forefront
for the repression against the working class today.

To conclude, we wish to reiterate to Marxist-Leninists in other countries
that the Russian communists are determined to follow the revolutionary path
drawn by the glorious party of Lenin and Stalin. Russian communists stand firmly
on their revolutionary convictions despite the political and material
difficulties they have to face. In this respect fraternal solidarity from
Marxist-Leninists around the world would be crucial and greatly welcome.

The editorial board of Proletarskaya Gazeta wishes to establish
fraternal links with your organization, receive materials in print from your
organisation on a regular basis. From our side we commit ourselves to circulate
translations of the most meaningful material published in the pages of Proletarskaya
Gazeta. Enclosed with this letter you will find a copy of the first issue
of our paper.

With communist greetings,

D.F. Priozhkov, Chief EditorProletarskaya Gazeta

From: Hyderabad.

I received Revolutionary Democracy yesterday only. Your journal made
interesting reading. The obituaries of Nagbhushan Patnaik and Vinod Mishra were
quite good and in good spirit, So also the information about the shooting of
Rosa and Karl, about the Niyogi murder case, etc. However, the Inderprastha
Apollo worker' demands (some of them) appeared too extreme. Anyway, it's a good
and quite informative journal. Please keep it up.